The Iranian Foreign Minister says he has spoken by phone with the director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency after a report from the agency said Iran is further increasing its stockpile of uranium

The preliminary U.S. proposal came as a confidential U.N. report described an Iranian initiative that had multiplied Tehran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.

A classified International Atomic Energy Agency report found Iran, since February, produced 300 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%, a step away from weapons-grade.